Indeed: wait till a little skull finally appears on your "My games" list beside the game. When that happens, press the skull and you can claim the game as a win.
PS: try to use thread titles with more meaningful names in future: a thread called "Help" in the Help forum is not overly informative...
Be patient.
Respect your opponent.
Claim the victroy when his time is over and your time (to win) has come. ("little skul next to the game in the MyGames-list"😉
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PS@Russ: This "skull" could be included in the playgame.php as well (like showing the timesettings and timestandings, ...)